Arts & Entertainment
Keeler Tavern Museum Remembers Music of WWI
This program is part of "Ridgefield Remembers WWI," a town-wide commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I.
RIDGEFIELD, CT -- The Keeler Tavern and Museum in Ridgefield will be presenting a special program on the music of World War I on Sunday.
The presentation will include listening to and discussion of some of the popular and lesser-known works from this period, from composers such as Victor Herbert, George M. Cohan, George Gershwin and Sergei Rachmaninoff.
Leading the program will be Jane Davis Stine, a teacher and musician trained in piano, double bass and cello. She has been a string teacher for over 20 years and founded an artist management company representing classical musicians and conductors internationally. She currently teaches a music appreciation course at the University of South Carolina, at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UConn in Waterbury. She has previously taught at Marymount Manhattan.
The free lecture will be June 24 at 3:00 p.m. in the museum's Garden House.
